A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm

EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.

  •  ascense   ( @ascense@lemm.ee ) English
    4•1 year ago

    Goodreads wasn’t exactly developing quickly before the buyout either, but it has certainly stagnated even more since then. The UI has been updated, but I don’t recall any significant improvement to functionality in ages.